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Lot 157
A COELACANTH
INDONESIA
Closed21 April 2016
Price Realised
GBP 4,375
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Specialist note
The most famous of all fossil fish, the Coelacanth was thought to be extinct for over 66 million years, and was known only from the fossil record until the discovery by a museum curator in 1938 from a fisherman's catch on the Chalumna river.